Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
OTHER SPECIMEN LANDS, ETC,
Which VIII Repay for Examination by
the Intended Home-Seeker

Adjoining the NIna tract is the Deer
creek fruit district, which has more than
1000 acres of bearing fruit trees. These
orchards extend up Deer creek for five
miles, to the canyon where that stream
breaks through the foothills onto the
plains. These orchards are owned by par
ties having from 20 to 200 acres each
The product of green fruit will be more
than 5000 tons this season, and from the
planting out of new orchards the produce
is rapidly increasing The product is
greater than that of many of the noted
fruit districts of the State, and still. out
side of Tehama, the Deer creek orchards
are hardly known.
SOUTHWEST TEHAMA COUNTY
Is a new district, Just attracting attention
1t extends from Thomes creek south to the
county line. 1t has till within the past
few years been like the Gallatin ranch-a
sheep range. A few enterprising men
have been raising grain there, and have
demonstrated that it is one of the best
wheat sections of the State. Orchards and
vineyards have been planted, with results
that prove that it is to become a great
fruit and wine country. The soil is a dark.
rich loan along the streams, red lands on
a belt four or FIVE miles back from the Sac
ramento, and then clay loan to the Coast
Range.
Enough tree and vine planting has been
done to warranting the home-seeker in
investing there.
OAK PARK COLONY.
Corning is thriving town on the west
side of the Sacramento, about six miles
from Tehama and eighteen miles from Red
Bluff. Kirkwood is in the southeastern
portion of Tehama county. 1t is the trad
ing center of large and rich country and
should be fourishing place Up to the
past year this place was only switch sta
tion. At that time J. A. Parker, one of
Sacramento county's wide-awake citizens.
visited this section and saw its natural ad-
vantages. He bought the land and laid
out a town. Now there is an immense
grain warehouse, a store, with a good stock
of goods, a blacksmith shop, livery. feed
and sale stable, hotel and thriving busi-
ness. Several families have come in.
bought land, built houses, put out small
orchards and vineyards.
ORCHARDS, VINEYARDS AND LANDS.
East of this place there is a large tract
of oak lands of great fertility. Mr.. Ashurst
has 5000 acres in one body which grows
heavy crops of grain, and would grow all
kinds of fruit trees and vines. Mr..
Ashurst has an old orchard which bore
large crops of fruit for more than quarter
of century, and there are other small but
tiourishing orchards and VINEYARDS all
through the country west to the Coast
Range for distance of thirty miles. Mr..
Craft, of Red Bluff, has several thousand
acres of bottom land covered with oak
growths.
Mr. Parker has several hundred acres of
fine land, and there are tens of thousands
Of red and clay loan lands between the
railroad and the Coast Range well adapted
for grain, fruit and vines.
This land is for sale cheap now, and il
IS bound to enhance rapidly in the near
Iuture. Mr.. Parker has established land
oftce at kirkwood, and he has an intelli- |
gent and truthful representative there,
md horses and carriages TO show the |
about.
There Is water enough in Stony creek |
md other Coast Range streams to flood !
hisi whole county if fumes or water
loiding bitches were built.
THE DEMONSTRATION
)f the capacity of Tehama soils and eli
nate for fruit and grape growing is to b. J